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Drew Halevy
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Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:51 am Post subject:
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We do our upgrades/new servers in the summertime (we are a school district).
We have a 2000 network with Exchange 2000. We are considering going to
Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. Our thinking is going this way.
Upgrade our DC/GC to Windows 2003
Upgrade our Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003
It is correct to upgrade the network first? If there is a time lag between
upgrading the network and upgrading Exchange, there should be no problem
running Exchange 2000 in a 2003 Windows network; correct?
TIA-Drew
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Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP
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Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:36 am Post subject:
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There is no problem running Exchange 2000 in a 2003 network, as long as the
server that Exchange is running on is *not* Windows 2003.
Likewise, Exchange 2003 can run just fine in a Windows 2000 Active Directory
environment.
There is 1 major gotcha to be aware of. If you upgrade your DC's to 2003
first, you need to run adprep /forestprep from the Server 2003 CD. Prior to
doing this, I'd recommend to run Exchange 2003's forestprep. There are a
few other workarounds that you can also do, but if you aren't careful, you
can end up with some mangled AD atrributes. See the following KB article
for more details.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314649
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Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
"Drew Halevy" <drewNO@SPAMbentonville.k12.ar.us> wrote in message
news:eGgWSK$$EHA.612@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | We do our upgrades/new servers in the summertime (we are a school
district). We have a 2000 network with Exchange 2000. We are considering
going to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. Our thinking is going this way.
Upgrade our DC/GC to Windows 2003
Upgrade our Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003
It is correct to upgrade the network first? If there is a time lag between
upgrading the network and upgrading Exchange, there should be no problem
running Exchange 2000 in a 2003 Windows network; correct?
TIA-Drew
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Drew Halevy
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Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:50 am Post subject:
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Thanks for the info. I will share with our planning group. -Drew
"Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" <ben_winzenz@NOSPAMdotmessageonedotcom> wrote
in message news:OO3frj$$EHA.3368@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | There is no problem running Exchange 2000 in a 2003 network, as long as
the server that Exchange is running on is *not* Windows 2003.
Likewise, Exchange 2003 can run just fine in a Windows 2000 Active
Directory environment.
There is 1 major gotcha to be aware of. If you upgrade your DC's to 2003
first, you need to run adprep /forestprep from the Server 2003 CD. Prior
to doing this, I'd recommend to run Exchange 2003's forestprep. There are
a few other workarounds that you can also do, but if you aren't careful,
you can end up with some mangled AD atrributes. See the following KB
article for more details.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314649
--
Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
"Drew Halevy" <drewNO@SPAMbentonville.k12.ar.us> wrote in message
news:eGgWSK$$EHA.612@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
We do our upgrades/new servers in the summertime (we are a school
district). We have a 2000 network with Exchange 2000. We are considering
going to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. Our thinking is going this way.
Upgrade our DC/GC to Windows 2003
Upgrade our Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003
It is correct to upgrade the network first? If there is a time lag
between upgrading the network and upgrading Exchange, there should be no
problem running Exchange 2000 in a 2003 Windows network; correct?
TIA-Drew
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